Tonya S. Bundick sits with her lawyer during a preliminary hearing in Accomack County General District Court in Accomac, Va., on June 17, 2013. / AP

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ACCOMAC — Accused arsonist Tonya Bundick’s new attorney has filed a motion to hold her jury trial outside the broadcast reach of Hampton Roads television stations, after several stations broadcast parts of her fiance’s videotaped confession to investigators.

Soon after he and Bundick were arrested April 2, Charles Smith III confessed to setting most of the fires in a five-month arson spree, and claimed Bundick set 17 of them.

She is charged with only two counts related to an April 1 fire in Melfa.

Bundick “denies involvement with the arson crimes of Smith,” the motion says.

Accomack County Circuit Judge Glen Tyler is scheduled to consider the motion at a Dec. 11 hearing.

Attorney Allan D. Zaleski of the Norfolk firm Protogyrou and Rigney made the request Nov. 14; it was filed in Accomack County Circuit Court on Nov. 20.

Bundick’s scheduled Nov. 6 trial was delayed, and Zaleski was appointed to represent her after her former court-appointed attorneys, Shannon and Garrett Dunham, were allowed to withdraw from the case in October because of a conflict.

Tyler on Oct. 9 ordered Bundick’s trial be moved from Accomac to Virginia Beach because it could be difficult to seat an impartial jury here due to publicity surrounding the case.

But Zaleski in the motion said new developments since the trial was moved necessitate another move to somewhere even farther away.

The motion claims “that the broadcasts ... create a grave danger that potential Virginia Beach jurors will have extensive foreknowledge of the statements of Smith,” making it difficult if not impossible to choose an impartial jury there.

In a second motion, Zaleski asked the court to limit evidence at Bundick’s trial to only “the dates, times and locations of the burning incident involved in the indictment,” and to limit background testimony about the history of the arson investigations or other incidents.